You Have Seen Their Faces Caldwell Erskine
You Have Seen Their Faces Caldwell Erskine In the middle years of the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen months traveling across the back roads…
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You Have Seen Their Faces Caldwell Erskine
In the middle years of the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen months traveling across the back roads of the Deep South--from South Carolina to Arkansas--to document the living conditions of the sharecropper. First published in 1937, it is a classic comparable to Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, and James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, which it preceded by more than three years.Caldwell lets the poor speak for themselves. Their collaboration resulted in You Have Seen Their Faces, a graphic portrayal of America's desperately poor rural underclass.
Bourke-White, who sometimes waited hours for the right moment, captures her subjects in the shacks Supported by his commentary, they tell how the tenant system exploited whites and blacks alike and fostered animosity between them.